1940Hench Coll.VA, Flying jenny or jinny. [Drawing shows a pole with a rotating hub at the top, from which hang ropes or chains; children run holding on to these and are swung outwards by centrifugal force.]

1946PADS 6.14 eNC,Flying jenny. . . A sixteen-foot pole five inches in diameter with a hole through the center. In this hole was a wooden or metal peg, which rested on a stump or some other wooden foundation. The jinny was rotated by some children while others rode it.

, The board that was put on this stump was a wide board . . , and a hole was bore into that, and then to hold onto the stump you’d need a long iron pin. . . The pin held it on the stump. . . It was known as a flying jinny. . . A child would sit on either end. It would just whirl round. . . A third person was usually needed to get them going, perhaps keep them going;

, They called ’em flying jennies, where they turned round. [FW:] . . Was it something up on a pole, that they could go round on that way? [Inf:] Yes. . . It was a seat that turned around and around like that.

1969PADS 52.52 LA, [Footnote to flying jinnie:] Saw off a straight, four or five-inch-thick tree about two and a half feet from the ground; whittle the top of the stump to form a pivot several inches high; trim the tree trunk to form a long pole; bore a hole through the pole at the point of balance; place the bored pole on the pivot. This piece of makeshift playground equipment was used as a combination seesaw and merry-go-round.

1980Foxfire 6 201 nGA, Mack Dickerson remembers a small oak stump about four feet high. They used a plank with a hole drilled in the center. The flying jenny would last longer when they used axle grease.